WAX EXPANSION AGENT AND WAX COMPOSITION CONTAINING SAME

摘要

Provided is a wax expansion agent which, by being added in a very small amount to a wax, enables improvement of the coefficient of thermal expansion of the wax when the same has been heated.　The wax expansion agent comprises a cyclic ether compound represented by formula (I). (In the formula, R¹ represents a C11-C23 alkyl group.)